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Originally Posted by iridius
Are you saying there is a "plugin" specifically for Calibre for viewing DJVU files? I didn't see one. Can you post a link if that's what you meant. Thanks
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You can use the
Open With plugin to configure calibre to open a DJVU file with an existing app of your choice on your computer. Using this plugin you can right click on a book and select the program you wish to use to open the selected book.
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Originally Posted by iridius
Also I'm curious as to why DJVU is not supported in an program that is all great at so many formats.
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All conversions with the exception of CBZ are essentially text based conversions and CBZ uses standard images for comics that are supported by all ereaders.
DJVU is a graphic format for scanned books. Most ereaders are optimized to handle reflowing text based html on a small screen. If the DJVU images were converted to a size to fit your Kindle you wouldn't be able to read the printed words and couldn't resize the image. This is true of image based PDFs when converted too.
If the the end result was to create a text based book from the DJVU image then some sort of intensive OCR work would have to happen converting the images to text. The effort in programming and time required to accomplish this (not to mention manual editing/cleanup of converted books) compared to the number DJVU users requesting it just doesn't add up.
If I had a bunch of DJVU books I would buy a reader that handles that format.
Good Luck.